Implicit Quasi-Steady-State Approximation and Application to a Power Plant Evaporator

Abstract

Construction of reduced order models using the conventional quasi-steady-state (QSS) or singular perturbation approach may not yield good low frequency approximations, especially if there is not a distinct time scale separation into slow and fast subsystems. An implicit QSS technique is proposed for general nonlinear models. The resulting reduced order model is accurate to first order in the perturbation parameter and its linearization is accurate to first order in frequency. An example is included showing the application of the proposed method to model reduction on a power plant evaporator.